IU Composition Majors:

The Composition Department has agreed to participate in Kids Compose, a community outreach program now in its second year. Kids Compose aims to foster children's natural talent for composing melodies. Children (grades 2 - 6) may submit melodies of which four will be selected by IU Jacobs School of Music Composition Faculty as winners. These melodies will then be arranged and orchestrated by IU Jacobs School of Music composition students and performed by the band and orchestra at MCCSC MAC series performances. Composition students and winners will be present at the performances, and may take part in a question and answer session at the completion of the performance, as time allows. IU Jacobs School of Music recording students will record, edit and press CDs, which will be presented to the winners, IU composition students and kept for archival purposes.

The four composition majors selected to participate in this venture will each receive an honorarium of $500 which will cover their honorarium and the expenses of providing performance materials. Two works will be for orchestra and two will be for wind ensemble.

The resulting arrangements will be less than two minutes in duration, and will be relatively straightforward, preserving the identity of the Kid's melodies, and making no elaborate or unusual demands of the ensemble, as there will be very little rehearsal time. Faculty will discuss this more with the selected composers. The arrangements should be effective and interesting, but also clear and concise.

More information can be found at the Kids Compose web-site.

If you are interested in being considered for this project, please send Prof. Dzubay an email indicating the same and your preference of band or orchestra, and also submit an example (complete work or excerpt) of your orchestrating for either band or orchestra by noon on October 1. You may leave material for Professor Dzubay at the mailroom.

Previous Winners

2006-2007
Kids Compose: Sarah Williams (grade 4, University); Agnes Zhu (grade 5, Summitt); Julia Telthorst (grade 3, St. Charles); Andrew Nguyen (grade 4, St. Charles); Payton Werner (grade 5, Homeschool); Walter Friesel (grade 3, St. Charles); Anna Raphael (grade 2, University School); John Weiss (grade 2, Rogers)

IU Composers: Band: Eric Knechtges, David Farrell; Orchestra: Laura Kramer, Matthew Peterson

2007-2008
Kids Compose: Megan Coghlan (grade 6, St. Charles); Luke Crowe (grade 5, Childs); Nicholas May (grade 3, University); Danielle Davila (grade 4, St. Charles); Korina Flater (grade 5, Fairview); Melody Herzig (grade 2, Marlin); Jacob Huston (grade 6 Homeschool); Alexis Butcher (grade 5, Summit)

IU composers: Elliott Bark, Jonathan Graybill, Jeffrey Stanek, David Werfelmann

2008-2009
Kids Compose: F. Javier Rodriguez (grade 6, Templeton), Mac Vogelsang (grade 6, University), Wesley Oliver (grade 4, Arlington Heights), Lauren Bauman (grade 3, St. Charles), Javier Fuentes-Rohwer (grade 6, Childs), Holly Barnhart (grade 6, University), Allison Neal (grade 5, Childs), Walter Friesel (grade 5, St. Charles).

IU Composers: Joshua Groffman, Lawrence Chappell Kingsland, Elizabeth Ogonek, Jonathan Sokol

2008-09 Review

Recordings

Blooming Lavender
Orchestration: Laura M. Kramer

The Dawn Hour
Orchestration: Matthew Peterson

Escape
Orchestration: Lawrence Chappell Kingsland

Jogging Girl and Marching Dog
Orchestration: Elliott Bark

The Musical Art of Chinese Polka
Orchestration: Jeffrey Stanek

NaOH Airplanes
Orchestration: David Farrell

Prancing Horse/Song in G Minor
Orchestration: Jonathan Sokol

A Snatch of Song, a Flash of Fire
Orchestration: Joshua Groffman

Untitled/The Dark Night
Orchestration: Jonathan Graybill

Yeah!
Orchestration: David Werfelmann